Abstract:
This tutorial focuses on coaching agile software teams. Based on eight years of experience guiding agile software projects in the academia and industry, we focus in the tutorial on a coaching framework for agile software projects. The tutorial has been facilitated several times in international conferences and in hi-tech companies.
The tutorial participants become familiar with coaching practices and gain experience with some of the practices.
The tutorial has two main parts. In the first part, we present the coaching framework, including the goals, structure, and guiding principles. In the second part, we focus on the following central themes in agile development processes: Teamwork and collaboration, time and measures, learning and reflection, and change and leadership.
For additional information about our work, see our book Agile Software Engineering, published by Springer in 2008 and our homepage:
http://edu.technion.ac.il/Courses/cs_methods/eXtremeProgramming/XP_Technion.htm
Presenters:
Orit Hazzan is an associate professor at the Department of Education in Technology and Science of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In May 2004, she published her first book Human Aspects of Software Engineering, co-authored with the late Jim Tomayko. Her second book – Agile Software Engineering – co-authored with Yael Dubinsky, was published by Springer in 2008. She is also a consultant for several software projects in the Israeli software industry. She presents her research at computer science and software engineering education conferences, and conferences on software engineering in general and agile software development in particular.
Yael Dubinsky is affiliated with the Software and Services group in IBM Haifa Research Lab. For more than ten years she is also the instructor of project-based courses in the Department of Computer Science, Technion - IIT. Her research interests involve aspects in software engineering and information systems. Yael has a significant experience with guiding agile implementation processes in the industry and academia. She has experience in organizing workshops and tutorials since 2005. Her book on Agile Software Engineering, which she co-author with Orit Hazzan, was published by Springer at 2008.